A script to give random jokes in maya

mayaJoke.py

from PySide2 import QtWidgets
import sys
from urllib import urlencode
import urllib2
import json

class UI(QtWidgets.QMessageBox):
   def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
      super(UI, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
      self.setWindowTitle("Joke By Shameer (The Joke is not mine)")
      self.setStandardButtons(QtWidgets.QMessageBox.Ok | QtWidgets.QMessageBox.Retry)
      data = {
         'type': 'single',
      }
      joke = self.http_post("https://v2.jokeapi.dev/joke/Any?", data)
      joke = json.loads(joke)
      self.setText(joke['joke'])

   def http_post(self, url, data):
      post = urlencode(data)
      req = urllib2.Request(url+post)
      response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
      return response.read()

App = QtWidgets.QApplication.instance()
if App is None:
   App = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)

while True:
   window = UI().exec_()
   if window == QtWidgets.QMessageBox.Ok:
      break

For more info on the joke generated, you can check our Joke API